Thursday, February 26, 2015

The Aurora Fox Theatre Company announces 31st Season (2015 – 2016)

Conceived for the Stage by STEVE CUDEN and FRANK WILDHORNBook and Lyrics by LESLIE BRICUSSEMusic by FRANK WILDHORN

Based
on the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and featuring a
thrilling score of pop rock hits from multi-Grammy and TONY nominated
Frank Wildhorn & double Oscar and Grammy-winning Leslie Bricusse, Jekyll and Hyde
is about the epic struggle between good and evil. A devoted man of
science, Dr. Henry Jekyll is driven to find a chemical breakthrough that
can solve some of mankind's most challenging medical dilemmas. Rebuffed
by the powers that be, he decides to make himself the subject of his
own experi-mental treatments, accidentally unleashing his inner demons
along with the man the world would come to know as Mr. Hyde.

November 27 – December 27, 2015

Little Women – the musical(REGIONAL PREMIERE)

Music by KIM OLER Lyrics by ALISON HUBBARD Book by SEAN HARTLEY

This
all-new musical, based upon Louisa May Alcott's beloved 19th century
novel, vividly brings to life the March family of Concord,
Massachusetts. In a time of war and sacrifice, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth,
guided by their mother Marmee, grow from girls into women, through
romance and courtship, illness and loss, loving and letting go. Kim Oler
and Alison Hubbard's moving Richard Rodgers Award-winning score, by
turns funny and touching, is seamlessly matched by Sean Hartley's wise
and witty book. This is Little Women like you’ve never seen before.

January 8 – February 14, 2016The Arabian Nights – a play (in the Studio Theatre)

by MARY ZIMMERMAN

Scheherazade's
cliffhanger stories prevent her husband, the cruel Shahryar, from
taking her life. After 1,001 nights Shahryar is cured of his madness and
Scheherazade is allowed to return to her family. This adaptation offers
a wonderful blend of the lesser-known tales from Arabian Nights with the recurring theme of how the magic of storytelling holds the power to change people.

March 18 – April 10, 2016Black Elk Speaks

Based on the book by JOHN G. NEIHARDT. Adapted by CHRISTOPHER SERGEL

Lakota visionary and healer, Nicholas Black Elk, grew up during the closing decades of the 19th
century when white settlers were invading the homeland of the Lakota
Sioux, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the
tribe’s way of life. As presented onstage, Black Elk recounts the
history of his people to his government-educated grandson, Hoksila, as
members of the ensemble play Indian Warriors and American Generals
re-enacting many fierce battles leading up to the massacre at Wounded
Knee.

April 22 – May 15, 2016Catch Me If You Can

Book by TERRANCE McNALLY Score by MARC SHAIMAN & SCOTT WITTMAN

Based on the hit DreamWorks film and the incredible true story that inspired it, Catch Me If You Can
is a high-flying musical adventure about Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., a
teenager who runs away from home in search of the glamorous life. With
nothing more than his boyish charm, a big imagination and millions of
dollars in forged checks, Frank successfully poses as a pilot, a doctor
and a lawyer - living the high life and winning the girl of his dreams.
But Frank's lies catch the attention of FBI agent Carl Hanratty who
chases Frank to the end...and finds something he never expected.